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Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. -

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. – George Eliot

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best
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George Eliot
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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Letters (writing)
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George Eliot
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. – George Eliot

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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. – Albert Einstein

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I read The Great Gatsby in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love. – Tom Perrotta

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Beauty

Dont get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. – Mark Hyman

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Beauty

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own. – Max Beerbohm

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We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. – John Naisbitt

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